Cultural Aging : : Life Course, Lifestyle, and Senior Worlds /

Cultural Aging : : Life Course, Lifestyle, and Senior Worlds / / Stephen Katz.

Getting older is not what it used to be. Unprecedented changes to longevity, demographic, and life course patterns are transforming the social roles and experiences of older people. Cultural Aging explores this phenomenon and focuses on what it means to grow older today. As Western populations age,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Katz, Stephen,
MitwirkendeR:
Campbel, Erin,
Green, Bryan,
Katz, Stephen,
Laliberte-Rudman, Debbie,
Marshall, Barbara L.,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©2005
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Aging, Life Course, and the Cultural Politics of Expertise
  • Chapter 1: Imagining the Life Span: From Premodern Miracles to Postmodern Fantasies
  • Chapter 2: Charcot's Older Women: Bodies of Knowledge at the Interface of Aging Studies and Women's Studies
  • Chapter 3: The Government of Detail: The Case of Social Policy on Aging
  • Chapter 4: Reflections on the Gerontological Handbook
  • Chapter 5: Critical Gerontological Theory: Intellectual Fieldwork and the Nomadic Life of Ideas
  • Chapter 6: Creativity Across the Life Course? Titian, Michelangelo, and Older Artist Narratives
  • Part Two: Lifestyle and the Fashioning of Senior Worlds
  • Chapter 7: Busy Bodies: Activity, Aging, and the Management of Everyday Life
  • Chapter 8: Exemplars of Retirement: Identity and Agency Between Lifestyle and Social Movement
  • Chapter 9: Forever Functional: Sexual Fitness and the Aging Male Body
  • Chapter 10: Growing Older Without Aging? Postmodern Time and Senior Markets
  • Chapter 11: Spaces of Age, Snowbirds, and the Gerontology of Mobility: The Elderscapes of Charlotte County, Florida
  • Afterword: Aging Together
  • References
  • Index

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